A recent Tampa Bay Times expose revealed that Tampa police write more bike tickets than the combined cities surrounding it combined. Those tickets are for things…
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday asked state and federal agencies to investigate hiring practices at major Hollywood studios, alleging discrimination in recruiting and…
Here's all the top news stories making the rounds on the web today that you need to know. Enjoy!
Two brothers, Benjamin and Ryan Brown, were stopped for DWB (Driving While Black) in Colorado Springs, CO. Ryan, who was a passenger in the car,…
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports…
According to the website KilledByPolice.net, more than 100 people died at the hands of law enforcement in the month of March. The figure, which comes…
After official complaints from two black women who said they were racially profiled by their “sisterlocks” hair styles, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) on Thursday…
In a shocking report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago police officers targeted mostly Blacks in a practice that has come to…
In an unprecedented move, a member of the grand jury that heard the case of now-former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, is suing for the right to speak out. The “St. Louis Post-Dispatch” reports the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit yesterday on behalf of the unnamed juror, […]
Thirteen organizations — which include the ACLU, NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, and Rainbow Push Coalition — sent…
Don’t you just love it when people do studies to reach conclusions that should be pretty darned obvious? If you’ve surmised that I’m referring to…
Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on the ACLU’s claim that blacks are arrested at a higher rate than whites over marijuana.
